σαπέρδης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Certainly a borrowing. Furnée adduces σάβειρος (sábeiros, “tub-fish”) as a variant, suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /saː.pér.dɛːs/ → /saˈper.ðis/ → /saˈper.ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /saː.pér.dɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /saˈper.de̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /saˈper.ðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /saˈper.ðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /saˈper.ðis/

Noun

σᾱπέρδης • (sāpérdēs) m (genitive σᾱπέρδου); first declension

1. kind of fish found in the Nile and in the Black Sea

   Synonyms: κορακῖνος (korakînos), πλατίστακος (platístakos)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ σᾱπέρδης; τοῦ σᾱπέρδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σᾱπέρδης ho sāpérdēs	τὼ σᾱπέρδᾱ tṑ sāpérdā	οἱ σᾱπέρδαι hoi sāpérdai
Genitive	τοῦ σᾱπέρδου toû sāpérdou	τοῖν σᾱπέρδαιν toîn sāpérdain	τῶν σᾱπερδῶν tôn sāperdôn
Dative	τῷ σᾱπέρδῃ tôi sāpérdēi	τοῖν σᾱπέρδαιν toîn sāpérdain	τοῖς σᾱπέρδαις toîs sāpérdais
Accusative	τὸν σᾱπέρδην tòn sāpérdēn	τὼ σᾱπέρδᾱ tṑ sāpérdā	τοὺς σᾱπέρδᾱς toùs sāpérdās
Vocative	σᾱπέρδη sāpérdē	σᾱπέρδᾱ sāpérdā	σᾱπέρδαι sāpérdai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σᾱπέρδῐον (sāpérdion)
• σᾱπερδῐ́ς (sāperdís)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: sāperda
  • → Translingual: Saperda

Further reading

• “σαπέρδης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σαπέρδης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN